Lawmakers Call for Action After Chinese Hack of US Treasury – EVOL

Lawmakers on the House Select Committee of the Chinese Communist Party have said China’s state-sponsored hacking of the U.S. Treasury Department is unacceptable and cannot go unchecked.On Dec. 8, Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised Beyond Trust, a third-party software service provider, and accessed certain unclassified documents, according to a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management Aditi Hardikar.

Hackers stole documents from Treasury workstations, according to Hardikar’s letter.

“This is unacceptable,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) wrote in a Dec. 30 post to social media platform X. “As Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the CCP, I’ll be requesting a briefing from the Treasury Department and working with my colleagues to ensure we protect our nation against these types of brazen attacks.”

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), a fellow committee member, said he is ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump.

“This kind of aggression cannot go unchecked,” Johnson wrote on X on Monday. “I look forward to working with President Trump to get tough on China.”

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